[THC] flat beer, need help

[Thomas Hess]

Add "priming sugar" to the beer before bottling it, 4 oz to 5 oz per 
5 gallons. (Ounces here is weight, not volume) Priming sugar sold by 
Great Fermenations is corn sugar = glucose, which is the easiest food 
for the yeast to use. They sell it in 2# bags and also, preweighed in 
5 oz bags. Table sugar = sucrose can also be used, although I have 
never used it. The beer has yeast cells floating around in it, and 
you can't keep them from getting into the bottles, so no extra yeast 
is needed unless you pasteurized the beer before bottling it. Those 
yeast cells will east the sugar, making more yeast, a bit of alcohol, 
and carbon dioxide that gives the fizz. If you use more than 5 oz of 
priming sugar, or if you bottle before all the fermentable sugars in 
the beer are consumed in primary and secondary fermentation, be 
prepared for exploding beer bottles. The pressure will be too high, 
and the beer will be way too foamy.

Tom

At 12:52 PM 7/22/2008, Phillip Fell wrote:
>so phil & i made a great tasting batch of raspberry wheat beer and 
>bottled it, some in glass bottles, a little in plastic soda 
>bottles.  we tried one of the soda bottles....YUM....perfect, but 
>the ones we capped are all flat.  ok, so yes, we used old bud light 
>bottles, its not the first time we used them (successfully the first 
>time) but apparently its a problem now.  so we brewed some new beer 
>a bit over a week ago, and thought we would add a teaspoon of the 
>yeast starter for that and a bit of sugar in a 2 liter soda bottle 
>and rebottle some of it, still flat, any ideas on how to save this 
>beer?  we did rack the new beer this weekend and harvest that yeast, 
>so we have plenty of yeast to work with if that will help
>
>   any thoughts would be appreciated
>
>   ps....we have non-screw-top bottles to rebottle in, or even more 
> plastic bottles, will prob throw out the bud light ones....
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